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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Your Oct. 10 issue carries an article under the heading National Affairs, in that article, repeats a few words of praise I said for Senator Jim Davis, those words for Davis were from the heart, and were as honest as the words of how dumb the Republican Organization is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Heaven, Hell & Johnstown | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Former polls taken by the CRIMSON show that in recent presidential straw votes, the University has always been Republican. In 1928, the total vote cast was 4080 with the Republicans drawing 2080, while the Democrats received 1775. In the largest vote ever cast in 1924 which returned 4583 votes, Coolidge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hoover Sweeps University in Greatest Republican Landslide on Record Here | 10/21/1932 | See Source »

"Of the three types of straw votes used to forecast presidential elections in the past, the most accurate results were obtained from the interview method used by the Hearst papers in 1928, which presaged the results almost exactly. This method, however, offers possibilities of grave abuses and has in the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holcombe Predicts Roosevelt Easy Victor in Democratic Landslide--Doubts Validity of Digest or Any Other Poll | 10/14/1932 | See Source »

Richard Barthelmess, son of a tenant farmer who dies of the scrabble for existence, educates himself with the rich landlord's help, becomes the landlord's man. The poor steal the rich man's cotton, kill his men, burn down his store. The rich man juggles the accounts to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Even with Paul Green's sincere writing, Barthelmess' well-intentioned acting, Director Michael Curtiz' occasionally striking photography, Cabin in the Cotton fails to excite with its cinematically new problem, treatment and landscape. The sweet, empty face of honey-haired Bette Davis is notably effective in a villainess part. Excellent shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

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